And thus the people every year
in the valley of humid July
did sacrifice themselves
to the long green phallic god
and eat and eat and eat.
They’re coming, they’re on us,
the long striped gourds, the silky
babies, the hairy adolescents,
the lumpy vast adults
like the trunks of green elephants.
Recite fifty zucchini recipes!
Zucchini tempura; creamed soup;
sauté with olive oil and cumin,
tomatoes, onion; frittata;
casserole of lamb; baked
topped with cheese; marinated;
stuffed; stewed; driven
through the heart like a stake.
Get rid of old friends: they too
have gardens and full trunks.
Look for newcomers: befriend
them in the post office, unload
on them and run. Stop tourists
in the street. Take truckloads
to Boston. Give to your Red Cross.
Beg on the highway: please
take my zucchini, I have a crippled
mother at home with heartburn.
Sneak out before dawn to drop
them in other people’s gardens,
in baby buggies at churchdoors.
Shot, smuggling zucchini into
mailboxes, a federal offense.
With a suave reptilian glitter
you bask among your raspy
fronds sudden and huge as
alligators. You give and give
too much, like summer days
limp with heat, thunderstorms
bursting their bags on our heads,
as we salt and freeze and pickle
for the too little to come.
End of the poem
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- Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Season poem – Alfred Austin
- The Goldsmith by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sinfonia Eroica poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Landowners by Sylvia Plath
- I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
- Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Cold by Witt Wittmann
- Ghazal to Pera Belle by Serkan Engin
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- Михаил Лермонтов – Хаджи Абрек
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- Before by Robert Browning
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).